Sandier Pastures

I am 12 chapters ahead since the last time I touched the HP book last night before I slept. Wow, 10 more chapters excluding the last “unnumbered ending chapter” and I am done.

Don’t worry, I will not be spilling any spoilers here.

I hope to finish the book tonight or maybe tomorrow afternoon while I wait for my mother to come back from her trip to Muscat, Oman. Changes have been made for her visa run* and instead of all of us going to the UAE-Oman border at Hatta, my mother has to board the plane alone, go to Muscat and then come back within 2 hours. She has to physically leave UAE to get another 60 days visa as her application for residency was denied last week.

So tomorrow afternoon, while I wait for her to board the plane and then come back from Oman, I will be reading the book and hoping not to read it too fast and find myself bored inside the airport.

* Visa run - leaving the UAE by driving through the border or getting a quick flight out to neighbouring Doha or Muscat and re-entering Dubai on a new visit visa, which is valid for 60 days.

The Carnival of Family Life is up at An Island Life. This week’s host, Kailani has done an awesome job! There were so many entries for this week and sorting all that out is one thing and another to categorize each of them!

I am now officially nervous and pressured to host this carnival for the first time by the end of August!

Next, go to the Adelaide Green Porridge Cafe for the latest issue of The Carnival of Cities where I submitted an entry to tell the people from other cities that some pile of bricks in Dubai has become the world’s tallest.

* Lastly, I just feel like spotlighting someone today *

I go to Stacey’s blog to travel for free. She takes me to places without having me board the plane and be absent from work. She has travelled to almost all corners on Earth. Check out The Travels of Stacey and see the places she’s been to. Wonderful pictures and great stories to tell every time. Be sure to check out her right side bar for the list of places she’s been. You’ll be very impressed, as I am.